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Article Databases

The following databases are a great place to begin your search for articles related to your research question. Depending on your question, you may want to explore other subject-specific databases.

APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)
This is the primary Psychology database. 98% of the articles included are peer-reviewed, and includes multidisciplinary perspectives from related fields. This database also lets you search by specific methods, tests, and subject groups, which is very helpful when you are trying to find similar studies to your own.

"contains approximately 5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,400 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage
DSM-5 Library (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
The DSM-5® Library subscription provides unlimited access to:
-DSM-5-TR
-DSM-5
-DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
-DSM-5 Clinical Cases
-Spanish Edition of the Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-5
-DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview
Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
This database is especially helpful for identifying the relationships between studies.

Citation Indexes for finding articles that cite a given author or citation.
- Science Citation Index Expanded (1965+)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (1965+)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975+)

Citation Connection is now available. This includes:
- Data Citation Index (1900+)
- Derwent Innovations Index – Patents Database (1963+)
- Book Citation Index: Scholarly Books (2005+)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990+)
- Index Chemicus (IC) (1989+)
- Current Chemical Reactions (1993+)
- Current Contents Connect (1998+)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 8,500 journals, including active full text for over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.

APA PsycInfo tutorials

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